Workshops | Office of Instructional Design

Level 1: Activate
These workshops are designed to give you the essential skills you need to begin teaching in the online environment. This includes basic Canvas skills, introductions to lecture recording and web accessibility, and the foundations of effective online course design and delivery.

Level 2: Elevate
Once you’ve mastered the basics, it’s time to focus on improving and elevating your online teaching practice. These sessions focus on strategies and tools to refine your instruction and take student learning to the next level.

Level 3: Innovate
These advanced sessions focus on creative ways to innovate in the online teaching environment. We’ll explore new ways to use external tools to enhance student engagement and collaboration, apply visual design elements to your course, and work together to solve your most puzzling teaching challenges.

Apr. 2023

Assessment Strategies That Support Teaching and Learning

Do they remember it? Do they understand it? Can they demonstrate it? Can they explain it? Can they apply it? Can they solve it? Can they expand on it? Assessment is an art that serves the dual purpose of measuring both student performance and instructional effectiveness. In this workshop we will discuss how to design and leverage a framework of formative and summative assessment that offers students opportunities to demonstrate their learning while providing instructors with insights into how to offer responsive teaching. While covering a broad spectrum of assessment formats, tasks, and tools, we will explore their strengths and weaknesses as vehicles for providing individualized student feedback and overall learning mastery insights.

Level 2: Elevate / @ 2:00 pm for 1hr / Presenter(s): Natalia

Best Practices for Lecture Capture and Video

This workshop will explore and develop an effective pre-production plan for producing academic media using lecture recording software, Kaltura Personal Capture. Before starting the capture process, grasp how to identify and address lighting and audio concerns by adjusting hardware and software settings. Learn what makes existing PowerPoint presentations capture-ready through storyboarding, chunking, timing, and visual image placement, all while addressing related accessibility concerns. Learn to switch software settings to customize the recording area and select third-party audio sources—additionally, troubleshoot common recording issues for a quick resolution. Share lecture media directly with My Kaltura Media, the Canvas Media Gallery, through Mediaspace, publication options, and embedding the video directly into the rich content editor (RCE).

Level 2: Elevate / @ 9:00 am for 1.5hr / Presenter(s): Kevin

Intro to Teaching Online: Best Practices for Supporting Student Learning

This workshop is designed for new online instructors and will introduce you to the online classroom, the unique needs of online students, and the components of a successful online course. These pedagogical ideas will then be tied to practical application in Canvas, with demonstrations of specific tools and Canvas features that address the needs of online students and implement the components of a successful online course.

Level 1: Activate / @ 2:00 pm for 1hr / Presenter(s): Behi

Intro to Teaching Online: Best Practices for Supporting Student Learning

Level 1: Activate / @ 2:00 pm for 1hr / Presenter(s): Suparna

Course Design with Data Insights in Mind

The Canvas Learning Management System and Integrated Tools collect data that can offer insights to guide informed approaches for course design and delivery. In this webinar, we will start by identifying the many sources of data generation in Canvas and then propose a framework for selecting and implementing that data to build learner-centered courses that offer more responsive teaching, all while keeping data stewardship in mind.

Level 3: Innovate / @ 10:00 am for 1 hr / Presenter(s): Karen

May. 2023

Designing and Revising Courses for Learner-Centered Teaching

This workshop introduces participants to course design methods and principles that can be used to create effective online, hybrid, and face-to-face courses. You will learn how to plan your course so that its components are in alignment, thus ensuring student achievement of set course goals. The plan you begin in this workshop will serve to guide your initial steps of online course development utilizing common LMS tools.

Level 1: Activate / @ 10:00 am for 1.5hr / Presenter(s): Hanna

Intro to Canvas Part 1: Setting Up & Building Your Course in Canvas

This workshop will cover the basics of setting up and building your course in Canvas. You will learn to navigate a Canvas course and global menu, add content (files, videos, links, etc.) to modules, add your syllabus, communicate with your students, and generate your gradebook.

Level 1: Activate / @ 11:00 am for 1.5hr / Presenter(s): Eric

Designing and Revising Courses for Learner-Centered Teaching

Level 1: Activate / @ 10:00 am for 1.5hr / Presenter(s): Hanna

Intro to Canvas Part 2: Assign & Assess Student Work

This workshop will cover the essentials for creating assignments and assessments in Canvas. We’ll go over how to create and set up Assignments and Discussions and generate rubrics. We’ll also go over how to manage student group work, and provide feedback and grades through Speedgrader and the Canvas gradebook.

Level 1: Activate / @ 11:00 am for 1.5hr / Presenter(s): Eric

Best Practices for Lecture Capture and Video

Level 2: Elevate / @ 9:00 am for 1.5hr / Presenter(s): Kevin

How to Use Ally to Improve Canvas Course Accessibility

In this workshop, you'll learn how to use Ally in Canvas to help you make your courses more inclusive. We'll explore key features of Ally, including the Instructor Feedback Tool, the Course Accessibility Report, and the Alternative Formats tool, as well as practical strategies and resources for improving your accessibility scores.

Level 1: Activate / @ 1:00 pm for 1hr / Presenter(s): Eric

Course Design with Data Insights in Mind

Level 3: Innovate / @ 3:00 pm for 1 hr / Presenter(s): Karen

Creating Accessible Online Content: Text, Documents, Images, and Video

This workshop is designed to explore how to design courses and materials that are accessible to all students. We will cover the basics of online accessibility, focusing on best practices for creating accessible course materials such as text documents (Word/PDF), images, and videos with captions. We’ll also go over key accessibility features in the Canvas LMS

Level 1: Activate / @ 2:00 pm for 1.5hr / Presenter(s): Natalia